KINGSTOWN, SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, June 29, 2020 – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Commerce wishes to inform the general public that in an effort to control the prices of certain cleaning supplies during the COVID -19 pandemic, Cabinet of Ministers approved an extension of 100% waiver of VAT, import and other related duties on the under mentioned products for the period July 1, 2020 to September 30, 2020:
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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The European Union announced Tuesday that it will reopen its borders to travellers from 14 countries, but most Americans have been refused entry for at least another two weeks due to soaring coronavirus infections in the US. Travelers from other big countries like Russia, Brazil and India will also miss out. Citizens from the following countries will be allowed into the EU’s 27 members and four other nations in Europe’s visa-free Schengen travel zone: Algeria, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay. The EU said China is…
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley will hand over the chairmanship of the 15-member regional integration movement, CARICOM, on Friday during a special conference of regional leaders. Mottley, who has served in the position for the past six months, will hand over to St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves. The regional leaders will hold host their 20th Special Meeting on Friday via video conference beginning at 10:00 am (local time) after they had agreed during their ninth Special Meeting in April to stage the handing-over ceremony at the beginning of July. The coronavirus…
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says the government and people of Dominica stand ready to support any entity that is to take over the operations of Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT). The prime minister announced during his weekly Anou Palay programme on Sunday that LIAT would be liquidated following a series of financially unsuccessful months due to Covid-19. He said the majority shareholders of LIAT – Barbados, Antigua & Barbuda, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Dominica – met Saturday and his government received a report from the Board of Directors “drawing to our attention to certain issues confronting LIAT 1974…
Three deportees from the United States, and a returning student have tested positive for Covid-19. They have been transferred to the Caura Hospital. Last Thursday, 22 people were deported from the United States . The deportees — 18 men and two women — were placed in quarantine in keeping with Covid-19 regulations. Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said the 18 male deportees were being quarantined at the Vision on Mission (VOM) facility in Claxton Bay. The two women would complete their quarantine period at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Debe campus. The deportees were swabbed for Covid-19 testing…
Prime Minister Gaston Browne says the position taken by regional leaders in respect of LIAT will bring their commitment to regional integration into sharp focus. Browne told a radio interview yesterday that if leaders act opportunistically and form their own airlines, it could spell doom for OECS and CARICOM. “And I can tell you LIAT is going to test the commitment of leaders in this region to CARICOM integration,” he told listeners to Observer Radio. “But based on the chatter that I am hearing right now I am seeing a West Indies Federation repeat, in which individuals are now thinking…
(BBC)A new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic has been identified in China by scientists. It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans, they say. The researchers are concerned that it could mutate further so that it can spread easily from person to person, and trigger a global outbreak. While it is not an immediate problem, they say, it has “all the hallmarks” of being highly adapted to infect humans and needs close monitoring. As it’s new, people could have little or no immunity to the virus. The scientists write in…
Police have arrested and charged Lennox Jack, a 50-year-old Businessman of Liberty Lodge on 28.06.2020 with the offences of Damage to Property. According to investigations, the accused allegedly without lawful excuse damaged one (1) Orange Vehicle Clamp valve (the Property of the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines) by cutting the said clamp with an unknown object. The incident occurred at the Reclamation Site in Kingstown on 26/06/2020. The incident occurred at the Reclamation Site in Kingstown on 26/06/2020. Jack will appear before the Kingstown Magistrate Court to answer the charge.
BARBADOS – CARICOM Secretariat launched the second round of the Caribbean COVID-19 Food Security and Livelihoods Survey to capture the current state of affairs and analyse how livelihoods, food security and markets have shifted over the past few months, since initial COVID-19 containment measures were put in place. This survey follows an initial survey conducted in early April 2020 that highlighted disruption to livelihoods and impacts on food security in the initial stages of the COVID-19 response. This brief survey is open to all CARICOM Member States and Associate Members, as well as Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten until 6…
MANCHESTER, England – Captain Jason Holder has underscored the importance of West Indies’ role in the global fight for racial justice after Cricket West Indies announced today that players would wear the Black Lives Matter logo on their shirts during the three-Test series against England starting next week. The series, which runs from July 9-28, is being played amid global racial tensions triggered by the killing of unarmed black man George Floyd in the United States last month. “This is a pivotal moment in history for sports, for the game of cricket and for the West Indies cricket team,” Holder…